[Jimmy Valentine]

How does this square with Tyson having their product cleaned and packed by the Chinese?

[butlerweave]

Is it an excuse to charge more for their product ?

[Ellendra]

Tyson Foods announced a "no antibiotics ever"

Not even when they're sick?

[Veto!]

Um, it’s already illegal to treat chickens with antibiotics.

So “antibiotic free” is just an advertising ploy

[Mariner]

One must ask: If these companies were able to successfully raise these animals and make a profit on the meat, why were they using antibiotics for the last 50 years?

So they would grow 10% faster. On 10% more feed.

They simply did not care if there were bad effects throughout the food chain and leakage into the environment.

Disclosure: I only eat animals and their products that have been pastured all their lives. But it’s because I can afford it.

My grocery and beer bill is around $150 per week as a single man. I NEVER eat out. ($20 of that is beer. I don’t drink cheap beer. All malt German style lagers.)

I don’t think everyone can. A couple with two teenagers would spend $500/week easily to eat the way I do.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having no formal training in any of the biological sciences I'm not entirely sure what,if anything,to make of antibiotics in food.From my years in hospital administration,working closely with highly skilled physicians,surgeons and medical researchers,I know that there's a pretty serious issue with various bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.IIRC feeding them to cattle and chickens is thought to accelerate that process.

I'd like to hear a reasoned argument in favor of deleting them from the food chain.And when I say "reasoned" I'm not talking about "environmentalists" or "animal rights activists".They're the last ones I'd see as being capable of "reason".I'm talking about scientists...scientists without a political or societal ax to grind.

[SunTzuWu]

no antibiotics ever

Why would you want meat from a diseased animal?